In situ occurrence of a gall midge (Insecta, Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) on fossilized angiosperm leaf cuticle fragments from the Pliocene sediments of eastern India | |
Hazra, Manoshi6; Hazra, Taposhi; Spicer, Robert A.; Sarkar, Subhankar Kumar1; Spicer, Teresa E., V; Bera, Subir5; Khan, Mahasin Ali | |
刊名 | JOURNAL OF ASIA-PACIFIC ENTOMOLOGY |
2020 | |
卷号 | 23期号:3页码:762-771 |
关键词 | Gall midge Fossil leaf cuticle Direct host-insect interaction Pliocene Eastern India |
ISSN号 | 1226-8615 |
DOI | 10.1016/j.aspen.2020.06.004 |
英文摘要 | In situ preservation of fossil insect damage in plant fossils is an excellent tool to study the coevolution of flora and fauna through geological time, but finding both damage and the insect causing that damage in the same specimen is a very rare phenomenon. Galling is a common form of angiosperm leaf damage, which can be regarded as a kind of extended phenotype of the causal insects, essentially the gall midges, but galls usually lack remains of the insects themselves. Here we report the in situ occurrence of a gall midge (Insecta, Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) as well as its pupal exuviae on the abaxial cuticular surface of fossilized leaf cuticle fragments of Fabaceae leaves (cf. Albizia) that also bear galls, recovered from the latest Neogene (Rajdanda Formation, Pliocene) sediments of the Chotonagpur Plateau, Jharkhand, northeastern India. This Pliocene gall midge features well-preserved legs, segmented antenna with distinct and enlarged scape, elongate curved setae, and longer than broad terminal plate of the ovipositor lamellae. The in situ presence of a gall midge on a host fabaceous leaf cuticle indicates the existence of a host-ectoparasite relationship in the ancient warm and humid tropical monsoon-influenced forests of eastern India during the Pliocene. This is the first authentic fossil record of an in situ phytophagous insect of Cecidomyiidae from India, as well as southeast Asia. Although the identification of the recovered phytophagous insect associated with the fossil leaf cuticle is only possible to family level, this find reveals that such plant-insect relationships existed in the Pliocene of eastern India. |
学科主题 | Entomology |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000557876700022 |
内容类型 | 期刊论文 |
源URL | [http://ir.xtbg.org.cn/handle/353005/11788] |
专题 | 西双版纳热带植物园_其他 |
作者单位 | 1.Spicer, Robert A.] Open Univ, Sch Environm Earth & Ecosyst Sci, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, Bucks, England 2.Chinese Acad Sci, CAS Key Lab Trop Forest Ecol, Xishuangbanna Trop Bot Garden, Mengla 666303, Peoples R China 3.Presidency Univ, 86-1 Coll St,Calcutta Univ Rd, Kolkata 70073, W Bengal, India 4.Univ Calcutta, Ctr Adv Study, Dept Bot, 35 BC Rd, Kolkata 700019, India 5.Kalyani Univ, Dept Zool, Entomol Lab, Nadia 741235, W Bengal, India 6.Sidho Kanho Birsha Univ, Dept Bot, Palaeobot Palynol Lab, Ranchi Rd, Purulia 723104, India |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Hazra, Manoshi,Hazra, Taposhi,Spicer, Robert A.,et al. In situ occurrence of a gall midge (Insecta, Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) on fossilized angiosperm leaf cuticle fragments from the Pliocene sediments of eastern India[J]. JOURNAL OF ASIA-PACIFIC ENTOMOLOGY,2020,23(3):762-771. |
APA | Hazra, Manoshi.,Hazra, Taposhi.,Spicer, Robert A..,Sarkar, Subhankar Kumar.,Spicer, Teresa E., V.,...&Khan, Mahasin Ali.(2020).In situ occurrence of a gall midge (Insecta, Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) on fossilized angiosperm leaf cuticle fragments from the Pliocene sediments of eastern India.JOURNAL OF ASIA-PACIFIC ENTOMOLOGY,23(3),762-771. |
MLA | Hazra, Manoshi,et al."In situ occurrence of a gall midge (Insecta, Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) on fossilized angiosperm leaf cuticle fragments from the Pliocene sediments of eastern India".JOURNAL OF ASIA-PACIFIC ENTOMOLOGY 23.3(2020):762-771. |
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